Thursday, July 29, 2010

SPEED Has Friday Covered From Pocono

Things are underway at noon ET from Pocono and all the Friday action is on SPEED.

The trio of Steve Byrnes, Jeff Hammond and Larry McReynolds are in for a long day. They call practice at noon, qualifying at 3:30PM and then handle Trackside Friday night at 7PM. Bob Dillner and Wendy Venturini are the reporters for the practice and qualifying. Elliott Sadler joins Trackside as a panelist.

Darrell Waltrip is back again on SPEED. This campaign to raise Waltrip's profile on the network is assisted by the fact that his brother, Michael, is out of the country. The senior Waltrip will step in for the truck series and ARCA coverage.

He will be joining Rick Allen and Phil Parsons who will call the truck series practice at 5:30PM in advance of the Saturday race. Ray Dunlap and Adam Alexander are reporting for the trucks while Wendy Venturini and Jim Tretow will handle ARCA.

Sandwiched in between the action on the track will be two editions of NASCAR Live at 1:30 and 3:00PM. This is a good little show to keep fans up to date on the happenings at the track. John Roberts and Randy Pemberton will be on the SPEED Stage with Bob Dillner and Hermie Sadler reporting from the garage area.

ESPN2 has lots of golf coverage on Friday, so there is no NASCAR Now and no other coverage of the sport. The 7:00PM Saturday night coverage of the Nationwide Series race is the next time ESPN comes back to NASCAR.

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22 comments:

Speed usually does a good job at all this, but I won't be watching since qualifying will be on while I'm at work and DW will be on Trackside and I figure either they will avoid the topic of the driver fines or be all apologies. Basically I'm just not in the mood for it this week.

Hope my driver does great this weekend. As Chadderbox said in the post about the fines, THAT's the reason I watch NASCAR - to see MY driver race.

Gymmie, I also thought the truck qualifying would be on Speed. How silly of us!!! I haven't seen any updates for Jack wonder how he's doing today and hope Vince is up and around. Nice article about Marty Reid someone tweeted.

I'm still annoyed by NASCAR, no Cup, NNS or Trucks for me this week. Off to Riverhead tomorrow for the Whelen modifieds. Versus will televise the event at a later date, so comparison will be an interesting experiment.

I had to DVR qualifying today and I am catching up on that right now. Yes, I actually watch qualifying. My wife thinks I am insane. But I will admit that I fast forward through parts of it too. Am going to DVR trackside and watch it later tonight and see how DW does.

I am looking forward to some racing this weekend. I am going to DVR the truck and Arca races tomorrow. I will watch the Nationwide race live. Sunday I will DVR Sprint Cup race and start watching it on recording about 3:45.

I am watching Nascar this weekend because of the drivers and despite Brian France. If only we could call Brian France into the Big Red Truck and tell him "boy we don't need you."

The guy on the Direct TV commercial they are airing during qualifying sounds like Ricky Bobby's rival in Taledega Night.